Last night I heard a domain name in a dream, and it struck me as sounding really neat in a nonsensical sort of way. So when I woke up, I registered it.
Normally I far prefer dot-net to dot-com, but since that’s how I dreamed the name it didn’t sound right otherwise.
If you’re into it, you can read about the dream here. Perhaps I’ll think of something cooler to do with the domain someday, but for now it’s a spare site to doodle with.
I got home from the show at stupid o’clock in the morning, and crashed for a bit.
I woke up at about 5AM to some weak sunshine coming in through my window, and suddenly remembered that it’s trash collection day. Grumbling, I threw on a random pair of shorts and a shirt, and blearily trudged outside to drag the full can out to the sidewalk in front of my house.
It’d been raining off and on, but most of the night’s weather was misty and cool without being cold. The ground glistens with morning dew turned up to eleven by a night of fog, the earth soft and wet without being muddy under my bare feet. It felt awesome.
The air is crisp, cool, moist, clean, and refreshing, like really good lettuce. I took a few deep breaths.
The birds in the trees around my house are chirping their morning chirps. I’m a total sucker for wild birdsong, always have been. A few squirrels run their errands along the branches.
The sky is completely overcast as it has been for most of the past week, but the morning Sun was behind it. I’m quite light-sensitive and sunlight is normally not my favorite thing, but at this moment the clouds and the angle all seemed to work to make it bright, but not uncomfortably so. This is no gloomy grey haze, but a shining blanket stretched across the sky. Thanks to the clouds, for once I didn’t need sunglasses to enjoy a Summer morning.
When I grumpily forced myself to get up to complete an annoying chore, I wanted nothing more than to get it over with and get back to bed. Once outside surrounded by an unexpectedly perfect moment, I was pretty unsubtly reminded of so many of the reasons why I love the world, so many things I’d lost sight of lately.
I’m grateful. I really did need that.
Tonight on Off the Hook Ray Beckerman of Recording Industry vs. the People, aka Slashdot’s NewYorkCountryLawyer, joins us for discussion on Capitol V. Thomas and other things. We’ll also be talking to Joe Sibley, one of the defendant’s attorneys in that case.
Geek Prom was epic. Many thanks to the awesome folks at Pumping Station One!
Nicky won the science fair, and quite right too. Her project was a discussion on music, illustrated with a working Commodore 128 which she had programmed to play 12 of her own compositions.
I landed safely in Chicago, a mere 7-8 hours behind schedule. Yay, Nicky!
Speaking of my intrepid girlfriend, she found herself getting a neat article written about her, complete with quotes from her dorky boyfriend.
Tonight I do Off the Hook and then crash at dear gracious kat’s place. Tomorrow I fly out to Chicago, where I shall visit with my dear Nicky, go to Geek Prom, and generally geek out and gadabout like a hooligan until Tuesday.
Those of you in the area, please get in touch if you’d like to meet up!
If you’re looking for something to do in Manhattan this Friday and dig political humor, you might like to check out the Obama Comedy Duel, featuring well-known pundits being funny on purpose.
Tell Ellis I sent you!
This Thursday I fly to Chicago to spend some quality girlfriend time with my quality girlfriend, who has asked me to Geek Prom.
Would anyone in the Manhattan or Queens areas be willing to let me crash on their couch on Wednesday night? I’m flying out from JFK airport on Thursday, and it’d be really awesome if I could avoid having to go home to Long Island after Wednesday’s show only to head back out to Queens in the morning. I’m fully housebroken!
